Hey!

Here's my final entry with some revisions to the short animation.

Picture:

http://www.e-volve.ca/derek/temp/RenderedPoseFull.jpg

Movie:

rhaoosh> thanks for the comments! I'm always open to constructive criticism and advice when it comes to animation because, with animation, I am self taught. The domino effect is a good analogy, and...

thanks for the comment!

i was having this debate the other day with some other people... good animations vs. good martial arts... unfortunately, they are not the same.

eg. the fight scene with...

here's the posed model fully rigged

http://www.e-volve.ca/derek/temp/RenderedPoseFull.jpg

and here are some animation samplers

1024x768 780KB DivX codec needed...

mtmckinley> I was aiming for pale, but i'll see what i can do with increasing the contrast of the shadowed areas... perhaps maybe a bumb map for the skin...

Hey everoyone! Here's another update on my progress. The texture is done and there is a bump mapping on the texture itself to give the lizard skin, pouldron, boots, and abs more 'depth'.

here's...

started painting the skin of the texture.


I decided to keep the eyes as seperate entities as opposed to just texturing them on. you can get some nice looks with them (window to the soul you...

thanks for the suggestions! after taking a long hard look at my model, i decided to stick with the low-poly approach. most of my models to date have all been low-poly (around 1000 triangles)... and...

y'know... i started the model with the intention of keeping it low poly (like 3500 +/-) but i might just keep going and do a super high cenematic quality model since it's more than half way there...

Quads (with a few triangles for details). if i triangulate it's about 5000... which can be trimmed by cutting the polys in the back of the eye, on the back side of the belts.